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A health care economy: Construction not the industry?s biggest contribution to the region

Quoted: ?The construction is short term,? said Steven Deller, a UW-Madison economist who has studied the economic impact of hospitals across the state. ?Once the project is done, those impacts go away.?

Quoted: Robert Batt teaches operations management at UW-Madison?s Wisconsin School of Business and has studied the health care industry. He notes that many hospitals get low marks for keeping people waiting when in fact the waits are quite short.